Hello Elizabeth, May I ask if I missed the sources for these accounts - because I sure would like said sources. Appreciatively, marilyn Elizabeth W. Knowlton wrote: >I was rereading today Clyde's post of last November. >The description of the English settlers burning alive the >Indian children, women, and disabled: "They were in >much doubt," it says of the settlers. I hope so. > >There is an almost identical account of the burning of >an Indian village in Westchester co., NY, where Ephraim >Knowlton (1676) immigrated. The account there >was that after brush was piled up and the fire set, >there was not a single sound as the entire village >perished inside their wigwams. > >How sure we always are that what we choose to >do to other people is the right way. > >Elizabeth > >Message text written by INTERNET:KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com > > >>Meanwhile, the English had set fire to the wigwams, some 600 in number, >> >> >and flames swept through the crowded fort. The "shrieks and cries of the >women and children, the yelling of the warriors, exhibited a most >horrible and appalling scene, so that it greatly moved some of the >soldiers. They were in much doubt and they afterwards seriously inquired >whether burning their enemies alive could be consistent with humanity >and the benevolent principle of the gospel," says one early account. > >The retreating Indians were driven from the woods about the fort, >leaving the English a complete, though costly, victory. They had lost >five captains and 20 men and had some 150 wounded that must be carried >back to a house some ten miles distant. To the terrors of the battle and >fire were added the bitter cold and blinding snow of a New England >blizzard through which the English toiled back to Cocumcussa. The >hardships of that march took a toll of 30 or 40 more lives. The Indians >reported a loss of 40 fighting men and one sachem killed and some 300 >old men, women and children burned alive in the wigwams. >< > > > >Elizabeth W. Knowlton > > >============================== >View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > >